Conference Agenda

The Online Program of events for the SEM 2025 Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early October.

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Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 18th Oct 2025, 04:49:26pm EDT

 
 
Session Overview
Location: M-104/105
Marquis Level
Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025
8:00am
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10:00am		 01H: Listening to Archives
Location: M-104/105
10:45am
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12:15pm		 02H: Narrations of Black Life
Location: M-104/105
12:30pm
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1:30pm		 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Section Meeting
Location: M-104/105
1:45pm
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3:45pm		 03H: Reflections on Sound and Movement in Ethnomusicology
Location: M-104/105
4:00pm
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5:30pm		 04H: Digital Media in Iran
Location: M-104/105
7:00pm
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8:00pm		 African and African Diaspora Studies Meeting
Location: M-104/105
8:00pm
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9:00pm		 Gertrude Robinson Network Meeting
Location: M-104/105
Date: Friday, 24/Oct/2025
8:30am
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10:30am		 05H: International Rap and Hip Hop
Location: M-104/105
10:45am
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12:15pm		 06H: Pop Protests
Location: M-104/105
12:30pm
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1:30pm		 Education Section Keynote
Location: M-104/105
1:45pm
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3:45pm		 07H: Film as Ethnography: Reflections from Colombia’s Sibundoy Valley, Hurricane-Ravaged North Carolina, and Bloomington, Indiana
Location: M-104/105
4:00pm
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5:30pm		 08H: Research tools for ethnomusicology: Navigating bibliography, historiography, and ethnography
Location: M-104/105
7:00pm
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9:00pm		 Crossroads Section for Difference and Representation
Location: M-104/105
Date: Saturday, 25/Oct/2025
8:30am
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10:30am		 09H: Digital Sound and Data
Location: M-104/105
10:45am
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12:15pm		 10H: Racialization
Location: M-104/105
12:30pm
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1:30pm		 Applied Ethnomusicology Section
Location: M-104/105
9:00pm
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11:00pm		 University of Chicago/University of Pennsylvania Joint Reception
Location: M-104/105
Date: Sunday, 26/Oct/2025
8:30am
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10:30am		 11H: Singing and Spirituality
Location: M-104/105
10:45am
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12:15pm		 12H: Being, Breathing, and Aliveness: Transforming Shared Space through Movement
Location: M-104/105